June 12, 2025
Brian Wilson RIP
Timothy Birdnow
Brian Wilson passed away.
Wilson was one of the co-founders of The Beach Boys. He was 82.
Brian Wilson passed away.
Wilson was one of the co-founders of The Beach Boys. He was 82.
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Hogg Castrated
Timothy Birdnow
Hogg goes to the slaughterhouse.
End of an Era: 75% of DNC Members Vote to Oust David Hogg
No Hog Heaven for David!
Hogg goes to the slaughterhouse.
End of an Era: 75% of DNC Members Vote to Oust David Hogg
No Hog Heaven for David!
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Gaslit Aliens
Timothy Birdnow
UFO's are a big fake - a black op by our government, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
Pentagon Disinformation Fueled Ameria's UFO Mythology, WSJ Reports
I've argued this all along.
It might have made sense in the old days when people still thought Venus and maybe Mars might be habitable and perhaps inhabited. But not now. Sadly, most people don't grasp the sheer enormity of interstellar distances.
If the sun were the size of a basketball and so too was Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor, then using that scale we would have to place the two basketballs 463,151 miles apart. THAT is how big deep space stretches.
You wouldn't take an interstellar trip without a damned good reason.
It might be possible an unmanned probe could come here, but even that would take immense resources that would tie up too much capital. Better to wait and listen; if you start picking up radio waves from another solar system where there were none before then that becomes your target.
But it works both ways; if aliens can hear us we should be able to hear THEM. Even if they now have superior communications one would think they would still be using radio as well; technology rarely disappears completely in such a fashion. The need for more power and more communications will always be there and the old radio bands might become just a housekeeping system but they would probably still be used. After all we still use a.m. radio.
But we don't hear anything. This bothered Enrico Fermi to no end (it's called the Fermi Paradox "where are they?" he asked.)
Given how everywhere in the world we can find something left behind by Man so too we should find SOMETHING from the aliens.
But,but,but...wouldn't they find us first?
Not necessarily; we have had radio since 1893, when Marconi first demonstrated his invention here in my hometown of St.Louis. And for the first thirty years there was very, very little of it.
Now the Earth lights up like a red dwarf star in the radio band, and it would be visible, but the radio waves only move at the speed of light and if the aliens are, say, a hundred light years away they would only really realize we were here just about now. They would have to build ships, and organize an expedition. If we assume slower than light travel at best it will take them probably at least a hundred and fifty years to get here. There is no way they showed up in the '50's.
But what of faster than light travel, you ask?
First, there is no theoretical ftl drive. We have some fanciful concepts - warp drive (which bends space-time, allowing us to cut off asizable chunk of travel) which would require a force pretty much equal to a black hole to bend space (we can't even do it theoretically), hyperdrive, which goes into another universe where the speed of light is infinite, or nearly so, then return to our own universe),ther are a few other fictitious ideas. But no solid science.
And we cannot get to the speed of light; it is absolutely impossible for anything with mass. Einstean showed that; E=mcsquared means m=c squared/e which means mass increases as you get closer to the speed of light and thus it takes more energy. To reach lightspeed you must have an infinite amount of energy because you now have infinite mass. Infinite is impossible in our known universe.
That's not to say you can't get fairly close to lightspeed. And when you do time speeds up for you so a hundred year trip might seem to take fifteen or twenty. BUT you also have stuff coming at you ridiculously fast. Simple charged particles will come at you as gamma rays. Dust will hit your ship with the force of atomic bombs. You would have to have "deflectors" as Star Trek called them, but those deflectors would require incredible amounts of energy. Perhaps a magnetic field would help with some of them but too much would still slip through, And it wouldn't help with the dust; for that we would have to have a force field that works differently than a magnet. We know of no such thing.
There are a number of slower than light spacecraft drives people have kicked around over the years. One would be a solar sail, which would use the pressure of light against a giant, gossamer mirror. IN THEORY you could get to Alpha Centauri in maybe a hundred years or so, but if there is a lot of debris in interstellar space you won't have much of a sail left. Oh, and you would have to have an enormous laser cannon beaming at your ship for a hundred years to make this work.
There is the Buzzard Ramjet which theoretically scoops up interstellar hydrogen and pinches it until it undergoes fusion. That assumes interstellar hydrogen is ionized (it doesn't appear to be) and that a magnetic field wouldn't drag on the galactic magnetic field (it would) and that single protons can undergo fusion. Nice idea but fat chance. Still, such a drive would be wonderful; you could actually get to stars in years and not centuries, at least as far as the travellers are concerned.
Maybe aliens have found some drastic new drives, based on science of which we can only dream, but it also means they are putting out almost no radio waves. And even if all of that is so why come to Earth? Our solar system is nothing special; there are a great many stars similar to our own. Alpha centauri A, for instance, is almost identical to ours. Tau Ceti too. They wouldn't just go to EVERY star and then just observe on the unlikely chance we might develop into beings capable of dealing with them.
So the flying saucers are and were nothing but ways to hide experimental aircraft and other things. A con,a fake.
No doubt they saw how it worked for Orson Wells when he panicked a bunch of people over his Halloween special about a Martian invasion.
People are all looking for something to believe in and in our modern era we are too cool to believe in God. Materialists want aliens because ultimately they want to believe in something but are too arrogant to admit God may be real.
So we've had decades of aliens but no proof. It's been a gaslight all along.
UFO's are a big fake - a black op by our government, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
Pentagon Disinformation Fueled Ameria's UFO Mythology, WSJ Reports
I've argued this all along.
It might have made sense in the old days when people still thought Venus and maybe Mars might be habitable and perhaps inhabited. But not now. Sadly, most people don't grasp the sheer enormity of interstellar distances.
If the sun were the size of a basketball and so too was Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor, then using that scale we would have to place the two basketballs 463,151 miles apart. THAT is how big deep space stretches.
You wouldn't take an interstellar trip without a damned good reason.
It might be possible an unmanned probe could come here, but even that would take immense resources that would tie up too much capital. Better to wait and listen; if you start picking up radio waves from another solar system where there were none before then that becomes your target.
But it works both ways; if aliens can hear us we should be able to hear THEM. Even if they now have superior communications one would think they would still be using radio as well; technology rarely disappears completely in such a fashion. The need for more power and more communications will always be there and the old radio bands might become just a housekeeping system but they would probably still be used. After all we still use a.m. radio.
But we don't hear anything. This bothered Enrico Fermi to no end (it's called the Fermi Paradox "where are they?" he asked.)
Given how everywhere in the world we can find something left behind by Man so too we should find SOMETHING from the aliens.
But,but,but...wouldn't they find us first?
Not necessarily; we have had radio since 1893, when Marconi first demonstrated his invention here in my hometown of St.Louis. And for the first thirty years there was very, very little of it.
Now the Earth lights up like a red dwarf star in the radio band, and it would be visible, but the radio waves only move at the speed of light and if the aliens are, say, a hundred light years away they would only really realize we were here just about now. They would have to build ships, and organize an expedition. If we assume slower than light travel at best it will take them probably at least a hundred and fifty years to get here. There is no way they showed up in the '50's.
But what of faster than light travel, you ask?
First, there is no theoretical ftl drive. We have some fanciful concepts - warp drive (which bends space-time, allowing us to cut off asizable chunk of travel) which would require a force pretty much equal to a black hole to bend space (we can't even do it theoretically), hyperdrive, which goes into another universe where the speed of light is infinite, or nearly so, then return to our own universe),ther are a few other fictitious ideas. But no solid science.
And we cannot get to the speed of light; it is absolutely impossible for anything with mass. Einstean showed that; E=mcsquared means m=c squared/e which means mass increases as you get closer to the speed of light and thus it takes more energy. To reach lightspeed you must have an infinite amount of energy because you now have infinite mass. Infinite is impossible in our known universe.
That's not to say you can't get fairly close to lightspeed. And when you do time speeds up for you so a hundred year trip might seem to take fifteen or twenty. BUT you also have stuff coming at you ridiculously fast. Simple charged particles will come at you as gamma rays. Dust will hit your ship with the force of atomic bombs. You would have to have "deflectors" as Star Trek called them, but those deflectors would require incredible amounts of energy. Perhaps a magnetic field would help with some of them but too much would still slip through, And it wouldn't help with the dust; for that we would have to have a force field that works differently than a magnet. We know of no such thing.
There are a number of slower than light spacecraft drives people have kicked around over the years. One would be a solar sail, which would use the pressure of light against a giant, gossamer mirror. IN THEORY you could get to Alpha Centauri in maybe a hundred years or so, but if there is a lot of debris in interstellar space you won't have much of a sail left. Oh, and you would have to have an enormous laser cannon beaming at your ship for a hundred years to make this work.
There is the Buzzard Ramjet which theoretically scoops up interstellar hydrogen and pinches it until it undergoes fusion. That assumes interstellar hydrogen is ionized (it doesn't appear to be) and that a magnetic field wouldn't drag on the galactic magnetic field (it would) and that single protons can undergo fusion. Nice idea but fat chance. Still, such a drive would be wonderful; you could actually get to stars in years and not centuries, at least as far as the travellers are concerned.
Maybe aliens have found some drastic new drives, based on science of which we can only dream, but it also means they are putting out almost no radio waves. And even if all of that is so why come to Earth? Our solar system is nothing special; there are a great many stars similar to our own. Alpha centauri A, for instance, is almost identical to ours. Tau Ceti too. They wouldn't just go to EVERY star and then just observe on the unlikely chance we might develop into beings capable of dealing with them.
So the flying saucers are and were nothing but ways to hide experimental aircraft and other things. A con,a fake.
No doubt they saw how it worked for Orson Wells when he panicked a bunch of people over his Halloween special about a Martian invasion.
People are all looking for something to believe in and in our modern era we are too cool to believe in God. Materialists want aliens because ultimately they want to believe in something but are too arrogant to admit God may be real.
So we've had decades of aliens but no proof. It's been a gaslight all along.
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Shut Her Down!
Timothy Birdnow
I've been saying this for years.
I remember when I was a child and my family took long driving vacations. We never booked reservations in hotels or whatnot; we just drove until it was getting late and then stopped at any motel we found. It was not unheard-of for us to sleep in the car because we waited too long "NO VACANCY"! When a motel was full it simply lit a sign and that was that. You were out of luck.
Yet America, the third most populous country on Earth, has virtually unlimited immigration, letting people from third world sh%#holes come her to steal our social services and our jobs and wreck our communities. It's insane on the face of it. We should long since have lit the "no vacancy" sign.
So now there is a national movement to do just that. (Of course I won't get any credit for helping to foment it.) The question is, is this too little too late?
At between 45 and 60 MILLION immigrants, legal and illegal, we have more immigrants than the population of Canada, and about double that of Australia. How do you maintain a nation with that many people who don't know our culture, and are mostly here to skim the cream off our economy?
Time to shut her down!
P.S. Our old friend Selwyn Duke has long labored in this cause too. He deserves to be given an attaboy!
I've been saying this for years.
I remember when I was a child and my family took long driving vacations. We never booked reservations in hotels or whatnot; we just drove until it was getting late and then stopped at any motel we found. It was not unheard-of for us to sleep in the car because we waited too long "NO VACANCY"! When a motel was full it simply lit a sign and that was that. You were out of luck.
Yet America, the third most populous country on Earth, has virtually unlimited immigration, letting people from third world sh%#holes come her to steal our social services and our jobs and wreck our communities. It's insane on the face of it. We should long since have lit the "no vacancy" sign.
So now there is a national movement to do just that. (Of course I won't get any credit for helping to foment it.) The question is, is this too little too late?
At between 45 and 60 MILLION immigrants, legal and illegal, we have more immigrants than the population of Canada, and about double that of Australia. How do you maintain a nation with that many people who don't know our culture, and are mostly here to skim the cream off our economy?
Time to shut her down!
P.S. Our old friend Selwyn Duke has long labored in this cause too. He deserves to be given an attaboy!
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Paul Goes Mad
Timothy Birdnow
Rand Paul has lost his marbles - and shows his ear is composed entirely of stannum (aka tin):
I guess Rand sold his office television in a move to save taxpayer dollars?
Or perhaps he,like Constable Kemp in Young Frankenstein,believes:
This is why libertarians make poor legislators; they lose all sense of perspective.
Law enforcement and protecting our national sovereignty is one of the few tasks the Federal government is actually supposed to perform. If Paul wants to save money maybe he can save it on his own salary rather than allow lawbreakers and life-takers to run rampant across the country. Or maybe he should rein in the high living he enjoys on the taxpayer dime.
Rand Paul has lost his marbles - and shows his ear is composed entirely of stannum (aka tin):
,"We should cut the immigration enforcement funding in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill in half.”
I guess Rand sold his office television in a move to save taxpayer dollars?
Or perhaps he,like Constable Kemp in Young Frankenstein,believes:
"A riot is an ugly thing...and it's about time we had one!"
This is why libertarians make poor legislators; they lose all sense of perspective.
Law enforcement and protecting our national sovereignty is one of the few tasks the Federal government is actually supposed to perform. If Paul wants to save money maybe he can save it on his own salary rather than allow lawbreakers and life-takers to run rampant across the country. Or maybe he should rein in the high living he enjoys on the taxpayer dime.
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The Red Horse
Timothy Birdnow
Gen. Mike Flynn issues a very serious, dark warning.
Gen. Flynn: The Deep State Is Boxing Trump in, Pushing US Toward 'Final Military Conflict'
Bear in mind ever since the First World War and perhaps even the Spanish American war the deep state has grown as a result of military conflict. Not just the Deep State but the whole internationalist project. wWI saw Wilson's League of Nations, for instance, but it was too soon. So another war was waged,a bigger, worse war, and the United Nations was the result. The Cold War gave us a united Europe and themetasasization of the bureaucratic and surveillance state. They need another big war to consolidate power.
Read your Orwell; they were in a constant state of war and the alliances were ever-shifting. Orwell saw that in 1948.
The big one now, especially one with a limited nuclear exchange, would solve a lot of the Progressive Project's problems. The war would destroy the alternate power blocks not in the New World Order (like Russia, or even China) and at the same time the destruction would terrify people to a point they would accept almost anything to end the conflict.The economy would be in ruins so they could impose socialistic economics on every nation on Earth and people would accept it because many would be starving. People could be rounded up into cities, camps designed to control them but promoted as "safe places". International institutions would become the sole project of every government on Earth.
They see it as "creative destruction"; you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Now Trump is atavistic, a throwback to the old nationalism and nation-states. Like Neanderthal man, he has no place in the future of which they dream. So he and, more importanly, the belief system he represents, must be destroyed, physically if necessary but certainly philosophically.
And in the process of all this creative destruction the "superstitions" of Christianity and Judaism need to go - and we know from WWI that a whole generation of atheists were born out of the fires of that conflict, at least in Europe. Witnessing incredible suffering and destruction makes people reject God. It's not surprise the post-WWII Europe saw a great apostacy after.
So I have little doubt Mr. Flynn is correct about this.
(BTW, the CIA was established one year prior to Orwell's book coming out; it was as if they used him as a template.)
The General states:
SOMEBODY had to know this was happening; I doubt the Ukraine dared risk American support without some sort of promise from someone here. But who?
The General concurs:
Nobody has ever been successfully prosecuted for violating the Logan Act, which makes it illegal to do such a thing, but these are not ordinary times. Perhaps Congress should update Logan and give it some teeth -and the President should use it?
At any rate, the Deep State is particularly rushed now as they are being defunded and kicked out, and they will be most unpleasant in their deaththrows, if indeed they are losing power. A nuked city would be worth it to them to start the Big One and advance their timetable to establish the Progressive paradise(Hell) of which they so dream.
Wish I didn't live in a major metropolitan area.
Gen. Mike Flynn issues a very serious, dark warning.
Gen. Flynn: The Deep State Is Boxing Trump in, Pushing US Toward 'Final Military Conflict'
Bear in mind ever since the First World War and perhaps even the Spanish American war the deep state has grown as a result of military conflict. Not just the Deep State but the whole internationalist project. wWI saw Wilson's League of Nations, for instance, but it was too soon. So another war was waged,a bigger, worse war, and the United Nations was the result. The Cold War gave us a united Europe and themetasasization of the bureaucratic and surveillance state. They need another big war to consolidate power.
Read your Orwell; they were in a constant state of war and the alliances were ever-shifting. Orwell saw that in 1948.
The big one now, especially one with a limited nuclear exchange, would solve a lot of the Progressive Project's problems. The war would destroy the alternate power blocks not in the New World Order (like Russia, or even China) and at the same time the destruction would terrify people to a point they would accept almost anything to end the conflict.The economy would be in ruins so they could impose socialistic economics on every nation on Earth and people would accept it because many would be starving. People could be rounded up into cities, camps designed to control them but promoted as "safe places". International institutions would become the sole project of every government on Earth.
They see it as "creative destruction"; you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Now Trump is atavistic, a throwback to the old nationalism and nation-states. Like Neanderthal man, he has no place in the future of which they dream. So he and, more importanly, the belief system he represents, must be destroyed, physically if necessary but certainly philosophically.
And in the process of all this creative destruction the "superstitions" of Christianity and Judaism need to go - and we know from WWI that a whole generation of atheists were born out of the fires of that conflict, at least in Europe. Witnessing incredible suffering and destruction makes people reject God. It's not surprise the post-WWII Europe saw a great apostacy after.
So I have little doubt Mr. Flynn is correct about this.
(BTW, the CIA was established one year prior to Orwell's book coming out; it was as if they used him as a template.)
The General states:
"This provocation has many forms. Most recently, it involves the surprise drone attack on the Russian Federation’s strategic arsenal, said to have affected 40 bombers, or about a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.
Since Russian and American strategic bombers are generally required by agreement to be visible to satellite surveillance, never before has anyone engaged in an attack on these visible targets.
If Russian bombers can be attacked with impunity, so can American bombers.
By this action, the Ukrainian government has not just weakened Russia, it has jeopardized America. Thus, those in the Ukrainian government who ordered these strikes have made themselves enemies not just of Russia, but of the United States.
Since Russian and American strategic bombers are generally required by agreement to be visible to satellite surveillance, never before has anyone engaged in an attack on these visible targets.
If Russian bombers can be attacked with impunity, so can American bombers.
By this action, the Ukrainian government has not just weakened Russia, it has jeopardized America. Thus, those in the Ukrainian government who ordered these strikes have made themselves enemies not just of Russia, but of the United States.
SOMEBODY had to know this was happening; I doubt the Ukraine dared risk American support without some sort of promise from someone here. But who?
The General concurs:
I do not believe that the recent escalation against Russia’s strategic bomber fleet was authorized by or coordinated with President Trump.
Rather, it is my view that the Deep State is now acting outside of the control of the elected leadership of our nation. I believe that these persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States.
Rather, it is my view that the Deep State is now acting outside of the control of the elected leadership of our nation. I believe that these persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States.
Nobody has ever been successfully prosecuted for violating the Logan Act, which makes it illegal to do such a thing, but these are not ordinary times. Perhaps Congress should update Logan and give it some teeth -and the President should use it?
At any rate, the Deep State is particularly rushed now as they are being defunded and kicked out, and they will be most unpleasant in their deaththrows, if indeed they are losing power. A nuked city would be worth it to them to start the Big One and advance their timetable to establish the Progressive paradise(Hell) of which they so dream.
Wish I didn't live in a major metropolitan area.
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Mexican Hat Dance
Timothy Birdnow
I give you Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution of 1917:
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
fin
And yet Mexican Presidente' Claudia Sheinbaum has promoted protests inside of the United States by illegal aliens and apparently fails to see the hypocrisy.
So her own constitution allows her to kick people out of Mexico without a hearing at any time when they are involved in meddling with internal affairs and yet she demands WE allow it.
By the by Mexico does not allow foreigners to own land. You can lease it for up to 99 years but you cannot own it. Mexico seems to hold entirely different standards for the U.S. than it does for itself.
I would like to mention the German Kaiser and WWI now. The Kaiser was an idiot; he feared the U.S. jumping into the war and he took steps to guarantee we did. Among them was negotiating with Mexico, promising to return all of the Southwest to them if they would invade the U.S. He also tried to set up guerilla warfare in the U.S. by Mexicans. This naturally infuriated everyone in the U.S. and, despite Woodrow Wilson winning the Presidency as "the amn who kept us out of war" the public wound up supporting the fight against Germany. Apparently Scheinbaum has forgotten that tidbit from history.
She has also forgotten the lesson of Poncho Villa, the Mexican guerilla. The U.S.sent none other than John Pershing after him into Mexico, and his aid was George Patton. That was the second invasion of Mexico bythe U.s. and both were equally successful.
I would also point out that Scheinbaum just warned us against violating it's territory after Trump suggested sending military troops into northern Mexico to crush the cartels. She was VERY adamant about the sacredness of HER border but then demands we allow ours to be pierced by her own people.
A number of Mexican groups - notably MEChA and La Raza (The Race) but others, have long spoke of taking the southwest from America (along with Texas) by invading and breeding and then when all the Gringos are gone just seceding and either establishing a new nation (Aztlan) or joinging Mexico. I have little doubt Sheinbaum is doing likewise here. I suspect this has long been the plan in Mexico itself and that is why she is so exercised now. She thought that she was going to be the one who would preside over the "reconquista". Now it's slipping away and she's quite wroth over the matter.
Well, I think we should reverse things and annex Baja California. It's beautiful and wholly undeveloped and would be the new Florida if we played our cards right. Mexico has little use for it.
At any rate Trump needs to punish Mexico for this. It is, in fact, an act of war if it can be shown Mexico offered any material support for these riots. I suspect we could find that if we looked.
Sheinbaum knows the Trump tariffs and economic policy are going to strangle her economy; this is just another way to try to strike at us. But you don't try to bite a cobra, not if you have any sense.
I give you Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution of 1917:
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
fin
And yet Mexican Presidente' Claudia Sheinbaum has promoted protests inside of the United States by illegal aliens and apparently fails to see the hypocrisy.
So her own constitution allows her to kick people out of Mexico without a hearing at any time when they are involved in meddling with internal affairs and yet she demands WE allow it.
By the by Mexico does not allow foreigners to own land. You can lease it for up to 99 years but you cannot own it. Mexico seems to hold entirely different standards for the U.S. than it does for itself.
I would like to mention the German Kaiser and WWI now. The Kaiser was an idiot; he feared the U.S. jumping into the war and he took steps to guarantee we did. Among them was negotiating with Mexico, promising to return all of the Southwest to them if they would invade the U.S. He also tried to set up guerilla warfare in the U.S. by Mexicans. This naturally infuriated everyone in the U.S. and, despite Woodrow Wilson winning the Presidency as "the amn who kept us out of war" the public wound up supporting the fight against Germany. Apparently Scheinbaum has forgotten that tidbit from history.
She has also forgotten the lesson of Poncho Villa, the Mexican guerilla. The U.S.sent none other than John Pershing after him into Mexico, and his aid was George Patton. That was the second invasion of Mexico bythe U.s. and both were equally successful.
I would also point out that Scheinbaum just warned us against violating it's territory after Trump suggested sending military troops into northern Mexico to crush the cartels. She was VERY adamant about the sacredness of HER border but then demands we allow ours to be pierced by her own people.
A number of Mexican groups - notably MEChA and La Raza (The Race) but others, have long spoke of taking the southwest from America (along with Texas) by invading and breeding and then when all the Gringos are gone just seceding and either establishing a new nation (Aztlan) or joinging Mexico. I have little doubt Sheinbaum is doing likewise here. I suspect this has long been the plan in Mexico itself and that is why she is so exercised now. She thought that she was going to be the one who would preside over the "reconquista". Now it's slipping away and she's quite wroth over the matter.
Well, I think we should reverse things and annex Baja California. It's beautiful and wholly undeveloped and would be the new Florida if we played our cards right. Mexico has little use for it.
At any rate Trump needs to punish Mexico for this. It is, in fact, an act of war if it can be shown Mexico offered any material support for these riots. I suspect we could find that if we looked.
Sheinbaum knows the Trump tariffs and economic policy are going to strangle her economy; this is just another way to try to strike at us. But you don't try to bite a cobra, not if you have any sense.
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The Brink of War
Timothy Birdnow
We are on the brink of war with Iran.
Israel Reportedly Ready to Launch while Iran Promises Strikes on U.S.Bases
FTA:
Never has the world been closer to the Big One. Thank God we have a President with a brain and not the spaghetti squash of the previous occupant on Pennsylvania ave.
We are on the brink of war with Iran.
Israel Reportedly Ready to Launch while Iran Promises Strikes on U.S.Bases
FTA:
Top U.S. officials have been told that Israel is prepared to launch an operation against Iran, reports said, which officials believe will lead to Iranian retaliation against American targets in Iraq.
The move is said to be behind a State Department move Wednesday to order nonessential employees at the American Embassy in Baghdad to leave, according to The Associated Press.
The move was part of an effort "to keeping Americans safe, both at home and abroad,” according to the State Department. As the AP noted, the embassy in Baghdad "already had been on limited staffing, and the order will not affect a large number of personnel.”
And if they do we will have to retaliate in-kind. Where will Russia and particularly China come down on this then?Never has the world been closer to the Big One. Thank God we have a President with a brain and not the spaghetti squash of the previous occupant on Pennsylvania ave.
U.S. Central Command said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "has authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents from locations” in the region and that CENTCOM "is monitoring the developing tension in the Middle East.”
CBS Newswas the first to report that American officials are anticipating an attack by Israel in Iran, although it didn’t provide specifics.
All non-essential personnel are being evacuated from our embassy in Iraq.
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June 11, 2025
Trump Appeals Convicttion
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit will hear President Trump's appeal over his convicttion in the "hush money" Stormy Daniels case.
All three judges on the 2nd Circuit were appointed by Joe Biden.
Of course there never was a crime, except by Daniels who successfully shook down Mr. Trump. Non-disclosure agreements are legal and most very rich and powerful people use them all the time. To call this "election tampering" is a farce; the tampering was Daniels herself and the accusations made on her behalf.
Trump was accused of "fixing" the election by paying off Daniels and then "manipulating" documents to hide the fact. But who handled it all? Trump's then-attorney Michael Cohen. And as these are perfectly legal contracts there was no reason to "hide" them, hence any irregularities with the paperwork can be chalked up to carelessness.
To make this charge Prosecutor Alvin (General Aldo)Bragg had to turn a federal misdemeanor which had already been investigated and dismissed by the Federal Election commission into a New York State felony. It was quite a tortured legal reasoning that allowed Gen. Aldo to create a whole new legal theory, a novel theory, and get a bunch of Trump-hating New York scumbag on the jury. This never should have been brought even before a Grand Jury.
But Trump will lose this appeal and have to appeal THAT decision.
At any rate it's good to see the ball moving. I want Trump to finish his term without any legal baggage hanging over his head; he deserves as much.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit will hear President Trump's appeal over his convicttion in the "hush money" Stormy Daniels case.
All three judges on the 2nd Circuit were appointed by Joe Biden.
Of course there never was a crime, except by Daniels who successfully shook down Mr. Trump. Non-disclosure agreements are legal and most very rich and powerful people use them all the time. To call this "election tampering" is a farce; the tampering was Daniels herself and the accusations made on her behalf.
Trump was accused of "fixing" the election by paying off Daniels and then "manipulating" documents to hide the fact. But who handled it all? Trump's then-attorney Michael Cohen. And as these are perfectly legal contracts there was no reason to "hide" them, hence any irregularities with the paperwork can be chalked up to carelessness.
To make this charge Prosecutor Alvin (General Aldo)Bragg had to turn a federal misdemeanor which had already been investigated and dismissed by the Federal Election commission into a New York State felony. It was quite a tortured legal reasoning that allowed Gen. Aldo to create a whole new legal theory, a novel theory, and get a bunch of Trump-hating New York scumbag on the jury. This never should have been brought even before a Grand Jury.
But Trump will lose this appeal and have to appeal THAT decision.
At any rate it's good to see the ball moving. I want Trump to finish his term without any legal baggage hanging over his head; he deserves as much.
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Beyeden Spy!
Timothy Birdnow
Joey playing eye spy.
BREAKING: Biden Admin Surveilled Musk's Contacts After Buying Twitter
Joey playing eye spy.
BREAKING: Biden Admin Surveilled Musk's Contacts After Buying Twitter
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An Act of War?
Timothy Birdnow
Is Mexico behind the L.A. riots? This author from The Federalist certainly thinks so.
Is this Mexico waging a proxy war here? Could be; Mexican Presidente' Claudia Sheinbaum has made threats of major retaliation for Trump's deportations and his tariffs. How does Mexico retaliate? This would be a quite effective method.
But of course it's also an act of war.
Is Mexico behind the L.A. riots? This author from The Federalist certainly thinks so.
Is this Mexico waging a proxy war here? Could be; Mexican Presidente' Claudia Sheinbaum has made threats of major retaliation for Trump's deportations and his tariffs. How does Mexico retaliate? This would be a quite effective method.
But of course it's also an act of war.
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Newsom Loses in Court (ForNow)
Timothy Birdnow
A judge has denied a request by Gavin Newsom to force Trump to immediately demobilize the National Guard in L.A.
Some sanity from a judge at last!
FTA:
There is no case to hear; the President is acting entirely in accordance with the law. This thing should just have been dismissed altogether.
But it suggests the judge will probably not support Newsom's case. He just wants to get it right so as not to be overturned.
A judge has denied a request by Gavin Newsom to force Trump to immediately demobilize the National Guard in L.A.
Some sanity from a judge at last!
FTA:
Newsom named the president, the Defense secretary, and the Department of Defense as defendants in the request, and a judge allowed the defendants 24 hours to file a response to the request.
'Defendants intend to use unlawfully federalized National Guard troops and Marines to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids.'
United States District Judge Charles Breyer temporarily allowed the order to the National Guard to continue until Thursday, when the motion would be reconsidered after the defendants answered and the plaintiffs also responded.
Newsom had accused the president of trying to "militarize" Los Angeles. He asked the judge to halt the order within two hours of his filing.
"Defendants intend to use unlawfully federalized National Guard troops and Marines to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids throughout Los Angeles," the lawsuit claimed. "They must be stopped, immediately."
'Defendants intend to use unlawfully federalized National Guard troops and Marines to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids.'
United States District Judge Charles Breyer temporarily allowed the order to the National Guard to continue until Thursday, when the motion would be reconsidered after the defendants answered and the plaintiffs also responded.
Newsom had accused the president of trying to "militarize" Los Angeles. He asked the judge to halt the order within two hours of his filing.
"Defendants intend to use unlawfully federalized National Guard troops and Marines to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids throughout Los Angeles," the lawsuit claimed. "They must be stopped, immediately."
There is no case to hear; the President is acting entirely in accordance with the law. This thing should just have been dismissed altogether.
But it suggests the judge will probably not support Newsom's case. He just wants to get it right so as not to be overturned.
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Senate Screwing up OBcubed
Timothy Birdnow
Daniel Horowitz looks at the mess the Senate is making of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBcubed). In particular, they have sunset provisions in place until just before the next general election, setting up a budge battle that could cost them the elections.
And they are cutting out many of the tax cuts for the citizens Trump promised in order to give businesses cuts.
They truly are the stupid party.
Daniel Horowitz looks at the mess the Senate is making of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBcubed). In particular, they have sunset provisions in place until just before the next general election, setting up a budge battle that could cost them the elections.
And they are cutting out many of the tax cuts for the citizens Trump promised in order to give businesses cuts.
They truly are the stupid party.
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Lying Liars
Timothy Birdnow
Trump said he called Gavin Newsom about the riots in L.A. and Newsom claimed he did not.
Guess what? Call logs prove that Newsom is lying.
Did anyone ever doubt that? I never did.
Of course, outside of Fox the media will either ignore this or bury it.
Oh, the yahoos and Yahoo tried to twist it to say Trump lied because the date was off by two days.So actually Trump had called him earlier, as this thing was really heating up. Newsom refused help. So why didn't Newsom call back and accept?
Is Trump supposed to hold his hand through the whole crisis? That isn't leadership.
Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi was equally triggered:
"It’s overwhelming because [the insurrectionists] want to put a bullet in my F**king head and they were going to hang the vice president of the United States — and this guy is not sending in the National Guard, and then lying about it to the public,”
fin
Yet nobody was hurt by violence except one protester, and that is a fact. She clearly is overstating the gravity of that day.
And who was at fault for that? Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and then-DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were in charge of security. And it was THEY who made no requests for beefed up security, despite being warned. And it was they who refused National Guard troops when Mr. Trump offered them.
Pelosi is the mother of all liars and apparently she doesn't fear the coming of her judgment day. Hope her political power gives her some solace when she burns in Hell.
Trump said he called Gavin Newsom about the riots in L.A. and Newsom claimed he did not.
Guess what? Call logs prove that Newsom is lying.
Did anyone ever doubt that? I never did.
Of course, outside of Fox the media will either ignore this or bury it.
Oh, the yahoos and Yahoo tried to twist it to say Trump lied because the date was off by two days.So actually Trump had called him earlier, as this thing was really heating up. Newsom refused help. So why didn't Newsom call back and accept?
Is Trump supposed to hold his hand through the whole crisis? That isn't leadership.
Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi was equally triggered:
"It’s overwhelming because [the insurrectionists] want to put a bullet in my F**king head and they were going to hang the vice president of the United States — and this guy is not sending in the National Guard, and then lying about it to the public,”
fin
Yet nobody was hurt by violence except one protester, and that is a fact. She clearly is overstating the gravity of that day.
And who was at fault for that? Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and then-DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were in charge of security. And it was THEY who made no requests for beefed up security, despite being warned. And it was they who refused National Guard troops when Mr. Trump offered them.
Pelosi is the mother of all liars and apparently she doesn't fear the coming of her judgment day. Hope her political power gives her some solace when she burns in Hell.
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Insurrection is in the Eye of the Beholder
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well...Trump's use of the word "insurrection" sure is a sore spot for the looney left at CNN:
CNN Melts Down after Trump Calls L.A. Rioters Insurrectionists
Panelist Stephen Collinson bemoaned:
So where was he when Democrats were calling J6 - a very minor riot smaller and less violent than most that had happened over the prior four years, an insurrectiion? Did he think then this was "Not something to be trifled with?"
"It will be another instance of the way that the White House is trying to declare emergencies or insurrections in order to unlock vast powers which most presidents don’t have access to.” Did he really believe the J6 people were trying to overthow the govenrment of the U.S.?
Strange how it was an insurrection when it was people with whom he disagreed but is just a "protest" when it's something he wants.
Who, pray tell, declared something an insurrection to try to remove the legally elected government of the United States? I seem to remember that as a goal of Nancy Pelosi (who acted on that day very much like Newsom is acting now, refusing to call for help so she could have an incident to use as a political bludgeon).
Seems insurrection is in the eye of the beholder, at least where the media is concerned.
Well, well, well...Trump's use of the word "insurrection" sure is a sore spot for the looney left at CNN:
CNN Melts Down after Trump Calls L.A. Rioters Insurrectionists
Panelist Stephen Collinson bemoaned:
"This is a very serious word that is being thrown around now, ‘insurrection’. That’s a rebellion of States or people in the states against federal government.
"That is not something to be trifled with. If for example, to your point, the President were to invoke the Insurrection Act, I think we would have yet another legal morass.”
"That is not something to be trifled with. If for example, to your point, the President were to invoke the Insurrection Act, I think we would have yet another legal morass.”
So where was he when Democrats were calling J6 - a very minor riot smaller and less violent than most that had happened over the prior four years, an insurrectiion? Did he think then this was "Not something to be trifled with?"
"It will be another instance of the way that the White House is trying to declare emergencies or insurrections in order to unlock vast powers which most presidents don’t have access to.” Did he really believe the J6 people were trying to overthow the govenrment of the U.S.?
Strange how it was an insurrection when it was people with whom he disagreed but is just a "protest" when it's something he wants.
Who, pray tell, declared something an insurrection to try to remove the legally elected government of the United States? I seem to remember that as a goal of Nancy Pelosi (who acted on that day very much like Newsom is acting now, refusing to call for help so she could have an incident to use as a political bludgeon).
Seems insurrection is in the eye of the beholder, at least where the media is concerned.
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Let Newsom and Bass Foot the Bill
Timothy Birdnow
Shouldn't we send this bill to Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom?
Pentagon Says Cost of Military Deployment in LA Is $134 Million
Shouldn't we send this bill to Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom?
Pentagon Says Cost of Military Deployment in LA Is $134 Million
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Newsom for Alcatraz
Timothy Birdnow
Mike "not so tiny after all" Johnson says California Governor Gavin Insurrection Newsom should be tarred and feathered for attempting to block the President's efforts to stamp out violence by illegal aliens, Hamas lovers, and other asundry leftist rioters.
Johnson told reporters, when asked if Newsom should be arrested:
"Look, that's not my lane. I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered,"
If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act Newsom could indeed be arrested for crimes, I suspect. He's aiding and abetting.
In 1865 confederate President Jefferson Davis was arrested and imprisoned at Fort Monroe and held there two years. Davis was elected President of the Confederacy against his will,and never wanted the post. Why was he imprisoned? For doing pretty much what Newsom is doing now, defending the people in rebellion (actually this is quite different as that was in an era where the balance of power was tipped in favor of the states and everyone thought secession was o.k. while Newsom, a champion of Federal power, is simply defying the Federal government over acore duty at a time when the Supremacy Clause is considered the apex of legal power.)
I not only think Newsom can be charged with some crime but probably should, although I don't think it would be politically expedient to do so now. There are other ways to punish him. He could,for instance,be sued by multiple Californians into bankruptcy for this. (Get in on the ground floor Bill and Mike!) There could be a recall althogh that's been tried before and also his term will soon expire. But he should be drained of funds, guaranteeing he cannot fund a campaign for higher office. There could be a tax revolt in California as Californians deduct what he cost them from their taxes. There are ways.
I'd like to see him tarred and feathered and maybe jailed on the shores of the lovely Salton Sea, there to enjoy the wonderful aroma of that resort region's summer air! (For those who don't know the Salton Sea STINKS like dead fish in summer.)
Or when Trump reopens Alcatraz he could be prisoner zero! Fitting.
But lawsuits are probably the best we can do for this jackass now. But there will come a time he'll have to answer for what he has done, in this life or worse in the next.
Mike "not so tiny after all" Johnson says California Governor Gavin Insurrection Newsom should be tarred and feathered for attempting to block the President's efforts to stamp out violence by illegal aliens, Hamas lovers, and other asundry leftist rioters.
Johnson told reporters, when asked if Newsom should be arrested:
"Look, that's not my lane. I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered,"
If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act Newsom could indeed be arrested for crimes, I suspect. He's aiding and abetting.
In 1865 confederate President Jefferson Davis was arrested and imprisoned at Fort Monroe and held there two years. Davis was elected President of the Confederacy against his will,and never wanted the post. Why was he imprisoned? For doing pretty much what Newsom is doing now, defending the people in rebellion (actually this is quite different as that was in an era where the balance of power was tipped in favor of the states and everyone thought secession was o.k. while Newsom, a champion of Federal power, is simply defying the Federal government over acore duty at a time when the Supremacy Clause is considered the apex of legal power.)
I not only think Newsom can be charged with some crime but probably should, although I don't think it would be politically expedient to do so now. There are other ways to punish him. He could,for instance,be sued by multiple Californians into bankruptcy for this. (Get in on the ground floor Bill and Mike!) There could be a recall althogh that's been tried before and also his term will soon expire. But he should be drained of funds, guaranteeing he cannot fund a campaign for higher office. There could be a tax revolt in California as Californians deduct what he cost them from their taxes. There are ways.
I'd like to see him tarred and feathered and maybe jailed on the shores of the lovely Salton Sea, there to enjoy the wonderful aroma of that resort region's summer air! (For those who don't know the Salton Sea STINKS like dead fish in summer.)
Or when Trump reopens Alcatraz he could be prisoner zero! Fitting.
But lawsuits are probably the best we can do for this jackass now. But there will come a time he'll have to answer for what he has done, in this life or worse in the next.
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Karen Curfew
Timothy Birdnow
That fishy Karen Bass has finally issued a curfew in downtown L.A. to curb violence by illegal aliens and Hamas and SEIU thugs.
isn't this rather closing the barn door after the cow has gotten out?
She only did this because she can't let Trump get the credit for stopping the violence; she will claim it was her timely action that made all the difference, not the four thousand National Guardsmen nor the Marines sent to quell the insurrection.Oh no; couldn't be THAT!
These people are utterly pathetic.
Now,she lectured everyone about keeping the situation calm and said it was under control, yet here she is restricing the entire population of a city to quell rioting by people who shouldn't be there in the first place. Typically liberal; hurt the good folks so you can coddle the bad.
Frankly, the best thing she could do for her city would be to put a curfew on local government and allow the Feds to stop this.
Of course they are part of the rioiting in some cases, or at least their family members.
That fishy Karen Bass has finally issued a curfew in downtown L.A. to curb violence by illegal aliens and Hamas and SEIU thugs.
isn't this rather closing the barn door after the cow has gotten out?
She only did this because she can't let Trump get the credit for stopping the violence; she will claim it was her timely action that made all the difference, not the four thousand National Guardsmen nor the Marines sent to quell the insurrection.Oh no; couldn't be THAT!
These people are utterly pathetic.
Now,she lectured everyone about keeping the situation calm and said it was under control, yet here she is restricing the entire population of a city to quell rioting by people who shouldn't be there in the first place. Typically liberal; hurt the good folks so you can coddle the bad.
Frankly, the best thing she could do for her city would be to put a curfew on local government and allow the Feds to stop this.
Of course they are part of the rioiting in some cases, or at least their family members.
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Democrat Anthem
Timothy Birdnow
I think this poem is the anthem of most Democrats these days:
"Candy is Dandy for sure it's a pleasure so instant and pure but Liquor is Quicker for that mental flicker so you really can't beat the allure."
Ogden Nash
Reflections on Ice Breaking
1931
I think this poem is the anthem of most Democrats these days:
"Candy is Dandy for sure it's a pleasure so instant and pure but Liquor is Quicker for that mental flicker so you really can't beat the allure."
Ogden Nash
Reflections on Ice Breaking
1931
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June 10, 2025
Hawley Wants to Raise theMinimum Wage
Timothy Birdnow
I usually love Josh Hawley but this is simply stupid.
Josh Hawley introduces bill to raise federal minimum wage to $15.
If there is a minumum wage at all (and there shouldn't be; it's none of government's business and appears nowhere in the enumerated powers) it should be at the state level,not the federal.
Minimum wage hikes cost jobs, especially for the young or the poor. Hawley should know that.
Not sure what he's thinking but he needs to get his head realigned.
The market is the best way to determine wages, not some one-size-fits-all law. Give a guy ten bucks an hour no matter how poorly he performs and you simply drag everything down. You also encourage employers to seek new ways to do things to eliminate the dead weight. That's why fast food places now require customers to use kiosks to self-order. Before they are through we'll have to cook the food ourselves and package it and say "thank you, come again" to grab a burger.
That was because of minimum wage hikes. Time was a young kid took your order, but McDonalds isn't hiring someone who needs to be trained and who may not show up. Easier to just dump his job on the customers.
This is how service goes down all around. Employees who now loaf off wouldn't have had they been in an adjustable pay scale and could make more if they performed better. This is exactly why the Soviet economy went belly-up; nobody working, everybody finding ways to slack off because they were guaranteed a job and guaranteed the same pay no matter how they performed.
As Archie Bunker once stated (quite brilliantly, though they tried to make him sound ridiculous) "what's the point of a man working hard all his life if he's going to end up equal". Archie was right.
So now even our political champions are going down this road.
I've always worried a bit about Hawley, ever since he let Prosecutor Kim Gardner wager her campaign against Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. Gardner broke multiple laws and Hawley was the Attorney General then; he could have shut her down. He didn't do it because of political considerations and nothing more. Greitens had been a Democrat and the Missouri GOP hated him for taking the party away, just as the national GOP hated Trump for the same thing.
So I've always kept one eye on Mr. Hawley. He pleasantly surprised me, but this appears to be a case of neotany, of backward evolution. He really should know better.
I suppose Hawley thinks that if we raise the minimum wage we will collect more in tax income. But that will only slow down economic growth. The businesses employing the minimum wagers won't have money to gorw. In the end this will probably COST revenue.
What fools we mortal be!
I usually love Josh Hawley but this is simply stupid.
Josh Hawley introduces bill to raise federal minimum wage to $15.
If there is a minumum wage at all (and there shouldn't be; it's none of government's business and appears nowhere in the enumerated powers) it should be at the state level,not the federal.
Minimum wage hikes cost jobs, especially for the young or the poor. Hawley should know that.
Not sure what he's thinking but he needs to get his head realigned.
The market is the best way to determine wages, not some one-size-fits-all law. Give a guy ten bucks an hour no matter how poorly he performs and you simply drag everything down. You also encourage employers to seek new ways to do things to eliminate the dead weight. That's why fast food places now require customers to use kiosks to self-order. Before they are through we'll have to cook the food ourselves and package it and say "thank you, come again" to grab a burger.
That was because of minimum wage hikes. Time was a young kid took your order, but McDonalds isn't hiring someone who needs to be trained and who may not show up. Easier to just dump his job on the customers.
This is how service goes down all around. Employees who now loaf off wouldn't have had they been in an adjustable pay scale and could make more if they performed better. This is exactly why the Soviet economy went belly-up; nobody working, everybody finding ways to slack off because they were guaranteed a job and guaranteed the same pay no matter how they performed.
As Archie Bunker once stated (quite brilliantly, though they tried to make him sound ridiculous) "what's the point of a man working hard all his life if he's going to end up equal". Archie was right.
So now even our political champions are going down this road.
I've always worried a bit about Hawley, ever since he let Prosecutor Kim Gardner wager her campaign against Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. Gardner broke multiple laws and Hawley was the Attorney General then; he could have shut her down. He didn't do it because of political considerations and nothing more. Greitens had been a Democrat and the Missouri GOP hated him for taking the party away, just as the national GOP hated Trump for the same thing.
So I've always kept one eye on Mr. Hawley. He pleasantly surprised me, but this appears to be a case of neotany, of backward evolution. He really should know better.
I suppose Hawley thinks that if we raise the minimum wage we will collect more in tax income. But that will only slow down economic growth. The businesses employing the minimum wagers won't have money to gorw. In the end this will probably COST revenue.
What fools we mortal be!
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